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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1976-04-22

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1976-04-22, page 01

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VOL.54 NO. 17
APRIL 22,1976-NISAN 22
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tion On The West Bank
Women Vote in Election
-, NABLUSj-, Israeli-Occupied West Bank — Women vote for thejfirst time at a polling place in Nablus, in the Israell^occupied West Bank, as thousands of Arabs votetTfor mayors and municipal councils in 22 West i and villages. Allowing women to vote was an Israeli innovation and they turned out in large numbers but, in accordance with Muslim custom, cast their ballots at separate polling places. Women's suffrage was generally accepted by the Arab men and _ih one village a woman was among the candidates for mayor. -
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Gallery Players Presents "The Rothschilds" May 1
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."The Rothschilds," the Broadway musical hit about
. the greatest rise from rags to riches in history, will be presented by Gallery Play¬ ers at The Jewish Center opening May 15. , Based on an acclaimed
. family chronicle by Frederic Morton. "The Rothschilds" won a run of fifteen months on Broadway. The songs accompanying this almost mythical tale of a family that emerged- from the Frankfurt ghetto to become the greatest banking house . in Europe, are by, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick who .wrote the music and lyrics for that greatest of all musical blockbusters, "Fiddler on the Roof."
The story opens "in the ghetto of Frankfurt in 1772. where a young, irresistibly
-ambitious and resourceful Mayer Rothschild is begins ning his career of finance
; that is to bring him to the position of being courted for loans by most of the crowned heads of Europe.
Angelo Dragonette will be seen as Mayer d Rothschild and Mark Shoemaker will appear as the son chosen to found a branch in London and who from there mar¬ shalled the family's funds to
. become a vital,factor in the
: defeat of Napoleon. George Cappell, Mike Feinstein,
. Jerry Honigberg and Joe Tonti will portray his brothers who are sent under
- war's pressure to Berlin, to Vienna, to Hamburg, to Prague, but who later set up branches of the' banking house in Paris, Naples,
Vienna and Frankfurt.
The musical "The Roths¬ childs" does not accompany the family to all their regal splendor but tells their tale from the beginning only to the point in 1818 when,- never forgetting their Jewishness despite their rise in the world, they were able lo
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JERUSALEM (WNS) - The municipal elections on the West Bank were won overwhelmingly by pro- Palestinian Liberation Organization nationalists and Communists. About 63,000 persons voted — 72.3 percent of the registered voters — including 22,000 women who were allowed to vote for the first time. The voters. rejected the older traditional leaders, most of them from weajthy families, who have close ties with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jor¬ dan and who have generally cooperated with Israeli authorities. They elected a younger generation of pro¬ fessionals, "" academicians
- and intellectuals, some of them radicals and some relatively moderate, but all with strong Palestinian na¬ tionalist sentiments. The nationalistic bloc won all 10
1 seats in Hebron's town coun- ' cil, swamping the slate sup¬ ported by former Mayor Mo¬ hammed Aliel-Jabaari, who
- declined to stand for reelec¬ tion. First place in Hebron went to Phaled Kuassma, a moderate, but he is expected to be-challenged for the mayoralty by the runner-up, Dr. Awani Zayer, a leftist radical. Nationalists, won eight out of 10' seats in Nablus, the largest town on
the West Bank. Communists won a majority of the council' _seats in Jericho and Com¬ munist or PLO-supporters
won substantial majorities in Tulkarem, Ramallah. El Birah and Beit Jallah. The nationalists failed, however.
Completion Of 76 Campaign Celebration Is Set For Wed.
The 1976 United Jewish Fund Campaign will cele¬ brate its completion on Wednesday evening. Apr. 28. 1976 with a community meet¬ ing at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Center. Myer Mellman. Gen¬ eral Campaign Chairman, extended an invitation (o the entire Jewish community to attend and participate in the celebration: "The Gallery Players of (he Jewish Center are preparing a unique entertainment program, which will effectively set the tone for our Campaign Clos¬ ing program. The program will be of. interest to every-
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sentalion to the students'of Columbus Torah Academy, and the Hebrew school -students will respond in both English and Hebrew. Myer Mellman. General Cam¬ paign Chairman, will preseiil awards lo the divi¬ sion chairmen, and they in (urn will make presentations to .the leadership til each
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in Bethlehem where they took only two seats on the town council and where the
'incumbent mayor, a tradi¬ tionalist, is assured of re-- election. In Jenin, the mayor
' was reelected.
The heavy turn-out of voters was all the more im¬ pressive because of the heavy rains that swept the West Bank'on the election day. The high proportion of women voters was seen as a strong break with tradition and a revolt against male conservatism. In the Samarian town of Kabatyam the local men. supported by. Mayor Muhammed Khali!, prevented women from vot¬ ing by refusing to register them-on the grounds that elections were not "women's business." Order throughout the West Bank was main¬ tained by Arab-policemen. Israeli security forces were evacuated from the West Bank on election eve. But Defense Minister' Shimon Peres paid a surprise visit to' polling stations in Ramallah and Bethlehem and was ap¬ plauded by young voters, mostly women. They had gained the right to vote by Is¬ rael's amendment of the Jor¬ danian law that limited the, electorate to male property, owners.
WASHINGTON (WNS) - A study by a California firm excludes Israel from a list of 32 countries that < have sizeable nuclear power plants. The Pasadena- 1 based Tetra Tech, in its just-published "Energy Fact Book for 1976," lists the 32 countries that have nuclear plants operable, under construction, or on order in the capacity of 30-megawatts of electricity. Eliazor Ekrit, the Israel Embassy's scientific counselor, confirmed that Israel's nuclear power plant at Dimona,does not have the.capacity.of plants in the listed countries that include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, -
Sorea, Taiwan, Hungary and Luxembourg. The book entities the Dimona plant as being used for the extensive and successful production of solar energy . equipment to help advance living conditions.
BOSTON (WNS) — Jews have'made a mistake by. focusing on the six million Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis while ignoring five million other people who were also slaughtered by the Nazis, Simon Wiesenthal told lido persons at Temple Israel here. The famed Nazi hunter said this has cost Jews the friendship of the families and friends of the non- Jews who were killed. However, he stressed that all Jews should regard themselves as survivors of the Holocaust since the Nazis planned to exterminate Jews everywhere, including the United States. Wiesenthal called Jews who support the American Civil. Liberties Union short-sighted because the ACLU defends the right of free speech and press for the American Nazi Party. He predicted that the Nazis can be expected to re-group and make another bid for power -in some country, adding that the American Nazi Party is the richest and most powerful Nazi organization.
— /Myer Mellman
one in the community, whether or not they have been involved in the cam¬ paign in any way. and I urge that every effort be made to attend this unique meeting." Rabbi1 David Stavsky, Chairman of the Rabbinical
Itabbi David Stavsky
AaVisory Committee for the 1976 Campaign,, will speak briefly on the religious sig¬ nificance of Israel and on the importance of American support. The students of the Columbus Hebrew School will be presented with a flag qf Israel, a custom which began,last year with a pre-
Community Israel Independence Day May 2 At Jewish Center
Israel's 28lh Independence
Day will be observed on
Sunday.-May 2 al the Jewish
Center. This year's cele¬ bration will be a fun-filled in- ( formal family day.
Irene-Daroe. Chairperson
or this year's Israel-Indepen-
dence Day Family Program.
announces that activities
will begin at 2:20 p.m. with
the community gathering at
the O'ra Shelter House on the
backgrounds of the Center
where the teens under the
leadership of Lort-Stan. will
have a "Street in Jeru¬ salem" set up. Of special
interest- to the younger. . members of the family, the
"Street in Jerusalem" will
feature game booths with
prizes. All the members of
the family will be interested
in eating Jaffa oranges, fala-
fel, Israeli candy, drinks.
bagels, etc, "We are One" T-
shirts. Israeli toothbrushes.
Israeli hals and books and
pamphlets on Israel will also
be available. 'Booths are
being manned by the various
. Jewish youth groups. Teen groups, still inter-;
ested in manning a booth should contact \ Caryn Palmer, Youth Services Di¬ rector, or Rachel Matalon at the Jewish Center, 2:11-2731. - At 3:00 p.m. Ihe Torch of Modin will" be flown in by helicopter and children will have an opportunity to inves¬ tigate the helicopter. *
At 3:30 p.m. there will be a Family Maccabiah program with special games and events being'planned by the Physical Education-Depart-* ment of the Jewish Center.
Rounding off this joyous occasion, at 4:30 p.m. there will be u visit to a Tel to dig for archaeological artifacts as well as visits to special locations in Israel. Ariel Karrie. Community Shaliach vand the Ohio State Univer¬ sity Israeli students have planned this special event. In case of rain, activities will beheld indoors.
The entire community is invited-to participate in the special festivities planned for Israel Independence Day. , • „•
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